IC 259
IC 259
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
256 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 256 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 259 as it looked roughly 256 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 265Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartNGC 1131Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartIC 262Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 1129Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 1175Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 266Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1131Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartIC 262Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 1129Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 1175Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 266Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).